Posts by radehi@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #APtB7NOkiE80dJ0IUa by radehi@qoto.org
2022-11-23T07:58:59Z
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@mathlover Yeah, could be a big disaster for his reputation if goes badly enough. So far I haven't seen a failwhale or evidence of a drop in engagement, though, and is hard to imagine what non-operations problem would be worse than what Twitter already did before he bought it, like getting Trump elected president of the USA.Advertisers do seem to be staying away, and that may be one reason he wants to move Twitter into more lucrative services like money transmission.
(DIR) Post #APtvx57SVuyEtLVXxw by radehi@qoto.org
2022-11-23T16:43:46Z
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@worldsendless @freemo Thanks! I wonder why I get results that are so much worse.
(DIR) Post #APtxMTmE4grSYkFbiS by radehi@qoto.org
2022-11-23T16:59:34Z
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@mathlover Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see failwhales, maybe even for several days running. But remember that failwhales were common ten years ago, and Twitter kept growing. What fraction of Twitter's quarter billion users will abandon it forever if goes failwhale for a solid week in December? Surely less than half.I think Musk's objective with Twitter is, as he declared in the TED interview, not financial. He'd previously declared an intention to start up his own press enterprise to compensate for what he saw as the bias of existing USA press outlets. (That's when the USA press started really going after him.)Eventually he didn't have to start his own press enterprise; bought Twitter instead. Is Musk's tool for reshaping discourse in his favor. That will still work with only 100 million or 50 million users. Of course, better if doesn't lose too much money, but controlling memespace is key to controlling outer space.
(DIR) Post #APu0E275LKJ8JAfhWS by radehi@qoto.org
2022-11-23T17:31:38Z
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@freemo Typos:"alongside" for "along side""don't" for "dont""let's" for "lets""it's important" for "its important""It's been" for "Its been""it's right" for "its right""isn't" for "isnt""changed; excited, I" for "changed, excited I""Gab" for "GAB"You need to correct these if you want journalists to take you seriously.Arguable but still probably style improvements:"swastika-wielding" for "swastika wielding""genocide-wanting" for "genocide wanting""old, and" for "old and""drama, and" for "drama and""prejudice, this" for "prejudice this""STEM-oriented" for "STEM oriented"Is this useful? I can do it for the whole article if you want, but will be a lot of work, so I don't want to do it if you'll just ignore it.
(DIR) Post #APu0sLc0GatwMjMBA8 by radehi@qoto.org
2022-11-23T17:38:55Z
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@freemo Will do that. Too bad GitLab doesn't support authenticating against Mastodon with OAuth?
(DIR) Post #ASJihRIRfD4vh5NFYG by radehi@qoto.org
2023-02-03T23:01:31Z
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@lauren Close-up of ant's face requires, charitably, 100 μm resolution. Can't orbit below about 200 km; 300-800 km is much more common. 100 μm at 200 km is 0.5 nanoradians. To get an Airy spot diameter 1.22 λ/d of 0.5 nanoradians with blue light of λ = 450 nm, you need d = 1.22 · 450 nm / 0.5 nanoradians = 1100 meters. Is not plausible that either US or China has a spy satellite currently in orbit with an 1100-meter-diameter mirror, much less a fleet of them.Additionally to neither country having the requisite rockets to launch a satellite the size of a small town yet, would be 19 arc minutes in diameter when it passed overhead, two thirds of the visual diameter of the sun or moon. Wouldn't help moving it to a higher orbit because the mirror would have to be proportionally bigger.Photos you see of cities on Google Maps "satellite view" are mostly aerial photos, not satellite photos, for this reason.
(DIR) Post #ASJq6QZkBGZENPKNpw by radehi@qoto.org
2023-02-04T00:24:28Z
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@lauren Is not a limitation of current technology; is fundamental limitation of the physics. Did not realize you were making a joke, because appeared you were using it to support serious conclusions about geopolitics.
(DIR) Post #ASJsiUwWah8SpnGSMC by radehi@qoto.org
2023-02-04T00:53:49Z
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@lauren Think that in light of enhanced surveillance capabilities feasible from aerial platforms, your dismissal of balloon concerns as hyperbole or political theater are ill-founded.
(DIR) Post #ASJw4tOaemQIuFlIqe by radehi@qoto.org
2023-02-04T01:31:29Z
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@lauren @captainslim We may have to ask ChatGPT.
(DIR) Post #ASJwEYpZyEvY1PzoZs by radehi@qoto.org
2023-02-04T01:33:12Z
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@lauren @captainslim OpenAI could unintentionally use ants with human faces as one of the optimization goals for their next project
(DIR) Post #ASJxEI9Q5PjaFBiCK8 by radehi@qoto.org
2023-02-04T01:44:25Z
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@lauren My objective is to learn, so if you know more than I do about it, you are definitely who I want to get into the argument with. Arguing with someone who had nothing to teach me would be a waste of my time - and of theirs, unless they're one of those rare people who wants to learn.
(DIR) Post #ASRW4IOz9fOYd3gHse by radehi@qoto.org
2023-02-07T17:17:23Z
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@lauren @mattblaze Think there are significant differences of degree resulting from the overall incentive structure. Still trolls can have their toots "blow up" through boosts, but the context people see them in it is significantly less incoherent just from overall post length, and instance blocking (incentivized by volunteers wanting less headaches, not employees wanting to maximize engagement) means most people aren't exposed to the worst of it most of the time.
(DIR) Post #ASRWxHToHjp3hD9mBk by radehi@qoto.org
2023-02-07T17:27:39Z
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@lauren Condolences. I didn't realize that was the background of the discussion (Mastodon has its own disconnects when it comes to coherence), and you don't deserve that.
(DIR) Post #ASRX9E1kwmfgSmjKq0 by radehi@qoto.org
2023-02-07T17:29:50Z
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@lauren Judaism and Zoroastrianism have similar features. Do Mastodon users feel like a persecuted minority in danger of being infiltrated by the enemy?
(DIR) Post #ASUGPC0p5iVb6ICYue by radehi@qoto.org
2023-02-09T01:06:18Z
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@lauren Yesterday downloaded dozens of videos with NewPipe, so doesn't affect me unless I want to look at something unexpected.
(DIR) Post #ATCQyw5OnlZaVuNLY8 by radehi@qoto.org
2023-03-02T07:50:45Z
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@davidslifka Think the right question is "What do we as the Fediverse community need to accomplish in order to avoid scaling by 10× or 100×, which would destroy everything good about the Fediverse?"
(DIR) Post #ATS45bym6bamEVsr2m by radehi@qoto.org
2023-03-09T21:31:21Z
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@Jbat sounds reasonable to me; can't tell if they'll have to damage the drive to get it to spin up, or whether is already damaged, until they succeed in spinning up it. The price is in the normal range.
(DIR) Post #ATSH4hQzdXmeGZyhSy by radehi@qoto.org
2023-03-09T23:56:34Z
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@lauren Are they allowed to do that? I thought grand jury proceedings were secret.
(DIR) Post #ATSHWFKJjZJ7CTzUBs by radehi@qoto.org
2023-03-10T00:01:23Z
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@lauren No.
(DIR) Post #AUfGZSS9VLmS95Ezsu by radehi@qoto.org
2023-04-15T04:14:18Z
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@lauren nice!